Halifax County, NC - Will of Richard Carney, 1793
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"In the name of Almighty God, Amen. I, Richard Carney of Halifax County
State of North Carolina, do hereby make my last will and testment in the
following manner. Item. I give & bequeath the whole use and profits incomes
of my whole estate, Lands, Negroes, furniture, cattle & in general
everything else whatsoever I am possessed of or with unto my lawful wife,
Mary Carney during her natural life or widowhood; after the decease of my
aforesaid wife, Mary Carney, Item. I give unto my son Richard Carney, five
hundred & seventy three acres of pine woods land, it being falf of a piece
of land (I entered*), with three negroes Frank, Easter & Mary. In like
manner I give to my Son Stephen Wright Carney all the rest of my lands that
I am possest of or with, after the death of my wife with two negroes
Elizabeth & Dan & and her increase. Item, I give to my Daughter Elizabeth
Veal two negroes Mingo and Nan and her increase. Item, I give to my
daughter Mary Cofil two negroes, Charles & Dianah and her increase. Item, I
give to my daughter Nancy Cotton six negroes Annes & her four children &
yellow Bett and her increase. All the rest that I have given my children,
such as moveable furniture & and those things is to theirs as I have given
them. My will & desire is that if either of these my children should die
without heir lawful of their body, that what I have given them shall be
divided among the rest that shall be then living. My will and desire is
that after my wifes decease, that all my estate that may remain of every
kind, may be equally divided among my children and not sold without
______?** among my children. I appoint my afroesaid wife, Mary Carney, & my
son Richard Carney & my son Stephen Wright Carney executors of this my last
will and testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand & seal this
twenty first day of April 1792.
Richard Carney SEAL
John Edwards Elijah Pope
Halifax County February Session, 1793 when this will was
ixhibited in open court & dule proved by the oaths of John Edwards & Elijah
Pope, the two suscribing witnesses thereto & on motion ordered to be
recorded. Therefore Richard Carney and Stephen W. Carney, the executors in
the said will named, came in & was duly qualified thereto
witness L. Song, CCl"
* I believe "I entered" is what it says here, but I could be wrong. Richard
seems to be referring to land he was granted by the state of NC. He
received three grants in all, but two of them (576 acres and 570 acres) were
combined and the 573 acres left to Richard, Jr. would be half.
**My copy of the will is damaged at this point so I can't read the word(s)
between "without" and "among", but I assume he is saying don't sell the land
without agreement of my children.
The will is recorded in Halifax County, NC will book 3, page 210. Most
places the name of "Nancy Cofil" is spelled Coffield.
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